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14-letter words containing e, v, n

  • st. john's eve — Midsummer Eve.
  • stanovoi range — a mountain range in SE Russia; forms part of the watershed between rivers flowing to the Arctic and the Pacific. Highest peak: Mount Skalisty, 2482 m (8143 ft)
  • stock dividend — a form of dividend collected by a stockholder in extra shares of the corporation's stock rather than in cash.
  • stock turnover — the rate at which stock is sold and replenished
  • student driver — someone who is learning to drive
  • sub-government — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
  • subdevelopment — a development within a larger or more important development
  • subjectiveness — existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought (opposed to objective).
  • substantiative — to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
  • substantivized — to use (an adjective, verb, etc.) as a substantive; convert into a substantive: a substantivized participle.
  • subversiveness — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
  • suggestiveness — that suggests; referring to other thoughts, persons, etc.: His recommendation was suggestive of his boss's thinking.
  • superelevation — bank1 (def 6).
  • superexpensive — very or extremely expensive
  • superovulation — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
  • supersensitive — extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive: a supersensitive smoke detector.
  • supportiveness — giving support.
  • sweet viburnum — the sheepberry, Viburnum lentago.
  • swinging voter — a person who does not vote consistently for any single political party
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • tableau vivant — tableau (def 3).
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • televangelical — relating to televangelism
  • television set — appliance that receives tv signals
  • tendovaginitis — the swelling of both a tendon and its sheath
  • tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
  • terminal leave — the final leave granted to a member of the armed forces just before discharge, equal to the total unused leave accumulated during active service.
  • the five towns — the name given in his fiction by Arnold Bennett to the Potteries towns (actually six in number) of Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent, and Tunstall, now part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent
  • the inevitable — something that is unavoidable
  • the ordovician — the Ordovician period or rock system
  • the vernacular — the commonly spoken language or dialect of a particular people or place
  • the visitation — the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth: Luke 1:39-56
  • think positive — be optimistic
  • thirty-seventh — next after the thirty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 37.
  • time-sensitive — physically changing as time passes
  • to give notice — If an employer gives an employee notice, the employer tells the employee that he or she must leave his or her job within a fixed period of time.
  • to live in sin — If you say that a man and a woman are living in sin, you mean that they are living together as a couple although they are not married.
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • transformative — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
  • transversality — the state of being transversal
  • travel-stained — dirty or soiled as a result of travelling
  • tree of heaven — an Asiatic tree, Ailanthus altissima, having large oblong leaves and rank-smelling flowers, often planted as a shade tree.
  • tunnel of love — a ride in an amusement park consisting of a dark, narrow, covered passageway through which small cars or boats are mechanically conveyed, usually frequented by couples.
  • turn of events — If there is a particular turn of events, a particular series of things happen.
  • twenty-seventh — next after the twenty-sixth; being the ordinal number for 27.
  • ultrasensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • unambivalently — in an unambivalent or clear manner
  • unappreciative — feeling or showing appreciation: an appreciative audience at the concert.
  • unapprehensive — slow to understand; not intelligent
  • unattractively — in an unattractive manner
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